LIX. LORANTHACEX. 387 
m. Ovary inferior, he celled, with 1 erect a usually not po Pura 
till the lowering is past, and adnate to the wall o f the cell so as to have bee 
o 
in a little vg Lotta the appearance of an external calyx, or the bracteoles 
or very rarely the bracts also wantin 
Ee Order, chiefly abundant within or near the tropies both in the New and 
Old World, with a very few species from more temperate regions in the northern as well 
as in the southern hemisphere. Of the five Australian genera, two have a at? wide range 
over nearly the whole area of the Orde er, the other three are endemic. In the arrangement 
and nm of the en I have been guided by Professor Oliver’s careful pin: of the 
Linn. Soc 
Calyx-border dinthiet Mites s oblong or linear, with parallel cells 
os aim nally. Flowers (in Australian species) elongated, 
Terrestrial tree. Fruit broadly 3-winged . l. Nuyrsia. 
rub. Fruita rupe, the endocarp with 8 internal ridges 
torresponding with furrows in the seed Dg 2. ATKINSONIA. 
Parasitical shrubs. Fruit succulent. Seed not furrowed 3. LORANTHUS 
rently simple. Anthers broad, opening trangversely or in 
lowers Hag small, unisex 
Anthers sessile on the rianth- segments a inwards in several 
pores. Plants glabrous, leafless o 4. Viscum. 
Anthers at th asé of the perianth- segments opening transversely. 
Plants » hoary or toment 5. NororHIXOS. 
1. NUYTSIA, R. Br. 
Flowers of Loranthus. Pe nthers versatile. Fruit a dry drupe 
; tals free 
Eee 3 Ze longitudinal wings. — Terrestrial tree. Leaves alternate. 
The genus is el to a single species, endemic in Australia. 
à N. foribun unda, R. Br. in Journ. Geogr. Soc. i. 17; Bot. Works, i. 
| À tree of 30 to 35 ft., quite glabrous, with EE, branches. Leaves 
tthe ee eni] mostly 14 to 3 in. long, entire, thick, ie SH ES 
new 
E re 5 crowded at the ends of the branches. deër, to 4 in ing, with 
: se under : 
. Small at the tim p pact (1 bract and 2 bracteoles) clo Callim 
L 
dE : dis , nearly à H about 4 in 
he Wings short - "ex Embryo with 3 or 4 e eotyledons.— 
Swan Riv. A 4; Fenzl in Hueg. Enum. 57; Miq. in Pl. Preiss. 
; Oliv. in SU rus Soc. vii. 96 ; "Forantbus idisdu, Labill. Pl. 
: 18. 
to im 
S "s Sound, R. Brown and others, and thence 
“s Bees Pr Coll., pr n. 1608, and others, aud Murchison ape des 
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